A Merely Symbolic Religion Does Not Threaten

The Gospel Is Like A Caged Lion,' Said The Great Baptist Preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'it Does Not Need To Be Defended, It Simply Needs To Be Let Out Of It's Cage' Today, The Cage Is Our Accommodation To The Secular/sacred Split That Reduces Christianity To A Matter Of Personal Belief. To Unlock The Cage, We Need To Become Utterly Convinced That, As Francis Schaeffer Said, Christianity Is Not Merely Religious Truth, It Is Total Truth- Truth About The Whole Of Reality.

Modern Secular Thought Has Its Own Dualism: It Treats Only The Physical World As Knowable And Testable, While Locking Everything Else - Mind, Spirit, Morality, Meaning - Into The Realm Of Private, Subjective Feelings. The So-called Fact/value Split.

The Costs Of Marriage Breakdown Are Borne By The Entire Society, And Therefore It Is Reasonable For The Entire Society To Demand Support For Marriage - To Insist That It Is Privileged Both Culturally And Legally.

Materialists Try To Live In The Lower Story Non-material World Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs Material World Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

Literary Theory Has Become A Parody Of Science, Generating Its Own Arcane Jargon. In The Process, Tragically, It Discourages Love Of Literature For Its Own Sake.